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Hogwarts: a school we all want to attend! Gryffindor: a house we would all love to live in! Quidditch: a game we all want to play! Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Rubeus Hagrid and Albus Dumbledore...
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Probably my personal fav, the All Things Considered’s catchy tune that leads up to the program is tattooed in my brain as is the voices of Michele Norris, Robert Siegel and Melissa Block. The show has...
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Aside from Mozart, Bob Dylan may be the most prolific artist of all time. He has been an active musician from 1959 until today. He is one of the most influential musicians of all time. He was the figurehead...
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Most Americans already know what the “V” symbolized back
then. The two-finger salute, whether held aloft by Winston Churchill or
newsreel GIs, has become an icon in films, folklore, and even on billboards...
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Many people are surprised to hear that Mark Twain wrote a
major novel based on the life of Joan of Arc, known in French as Jeanne
d'Arc , and by her friends and countrymen and women la pucelle , the
maid...
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This book examines the impact of the Indian Reorganization Act on two Lakota reservations in South Dakota – the so-called “Indian New Deal,” which was the brainchild of Indian Commissioner John Collier...
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Christopher Lasch forces
history through a multi-disciplinary wringer in order to craft his scathing critique
of contemporary American society. He employs sociology, literary criticism,
neo-Marxist economics...
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Nash draws a line between conceptual wilderness and the
real thing and by doing so he makes a strong argument for realigning
socio-cultural ideas to better reflect the interchange between humans and the...
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The sonnet first originated in the form of the Italian Sonnet. An English Sonnet soon developed from the Italian variety. The famous Sonnet writer was, of course, Shakespeare. The Sonnet has three four...
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What do you envision when you hear the words “oral history?”
Most folks define oral history as stories, which are spoken, telling about
certain events that happened in the past. But the definition might...
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Neil Klugman – the hero of
Philip Roth’s novella – is a young librarian with mere tepid ambivalence
toward the American Dream. In 1950s America , God was a deity who wanted everything (including His
wars...
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From
the aftermath of the 1964 Presidential election the conservative movement in America – if not the GOP itself –
appeared all but dead. The champion of the right, Republican Barry Goldwater,
had suffered...
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Magical Realism came to prominence as a literary genre with the advent of the Latin American novel in the 1960s. Works by Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentos, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez all brought the genre to...
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Wallace Stegner fills the
pages of this classic with bigger-than-life personalities. Of course, Major
John Wesley Powell – the one-armed, swashbuckling Civil War veteran – towers
center stage in this masterful...
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Historians can be just as myopic and exclusionary as
everybody else, and not just in the subjects they choose to study. The rules of
good history demand linear thinking, not to mention a coherent view...
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Rural Tennessee in 1925 staged the “Monkey Trial,” then the latest
incarnation of the “trial of the century.” That particular legal sensation –
the misdemeanor prosecution of a part-time biology teacher...
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This book gives a complex and often technical look at
Christianity during the nineteenth century in what is now British Columbia , as Euro-Canadian missionaries brought their
religion to the native Tsimshian...
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Of all the books and articles I have read during my history
studies, nothing hit me on such a gut level, with such a visceral reaction, as
the accounts of California Indians and the atrocities they faced...
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Anthony Burgess published over 50 books. His best-known work is A Clockwork Orange. It was not his best work, but it is a strong novel: an Orwellian vision
that follows a teen-age gang leader on his rampages...
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Stephen King's web site .
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